1. Political upheaval: We found that high magnitudes of previous internal wars and regime crises over a period of 15 years increased the risk of genocide during or after a new state failure by nearly two times.

6. International Interdependence: The sixth variable is a substitute for international connectedness. Countries with low trade openness had two and a half times greater odds of having state failures culminating in geno-politicide.

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The mainstream media has touted this story as major breaking news. But, to anyone who has been paying even a modicum of attention, it is crystal clear that Comey’s firing did not precipitate the FBI’s investigation of Trump.

To the contrary, the readily available record facts demonstrate that Comey’s FBI began investigating Trump and his campaign for possible Russian collusion shortly after he won the Republican Party’s nomination.

The Balfour Declaration's forgotten clause, 101 years on: a thread on Israel, Zionism and the diaspora, after Pittsburgh >>

When discussing the Balfour Declaration, we usually remember the promise not to harm "the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine". This limited pledge reduced Arabs to "non-Jews", promised no political and national rights, and was not kept.

But we almost always forget the other condition: that the establishment of a Jewish national home should not harm "the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country". We forget this clause because after 1945 Zionism became a Jewish consensus.

1/ My summary of @MarkFriedenbach's new paper “Forward Blocks: On-chain/settlement capacity increases without the hard-fork” on how to increase transaction throughput of Bitcoin 3584x through a new two-chain “forward block” method.

2/ The four main previous approaches to on-chain scaling were introduced:

3/ Mark believes that each of the above Bitcoin scalability methods have unacceptable trade-offs, but by combining them all together through forward blocks, we can “cancel out” most of the bad trade-offs.

Calls for more 'civil' and de-personalized opposition to the Trump regime by, e.g., @davidaxelrod and @jpodhoretz, from members of my own generation perplex me b/c they seem to ignore the experience of our generation in the anti-Viet Nam war movement.+

Nothing that has yet happened in the context of Trump comes close to the mass turmoil that marked resistance to that war, over a period of years, but especially in the period 1967-70. Official violence and repression wd shock many younger Americans today.+sfchronicle.com/thetake/articl…

Ohio National Guard shot and killed protesting students at Kent State. Chicago police beat hundreds of demonstrators outside the 1968 DNC. Anti-war figures like the Berrigans engaged in 'direct action' by breaking into draft board and FBI offices and destroying records.+

"Many years ago, the then president of The National Council of Churches warned that the danger of the great religious awakening taking place in our country, might become fanatical and be carried into our political and business life!

"Perhaps this was a fair assessment, that is, if you conflate #Christian#Zionism with religious awakening. Unfortunately, these "fanatical" #Evangelicals have 0 faith in the #Christian religion to which they give empty lip service--while paying homage to those who hate #Christ.

"For lack of faith in the actual #Bible, #Evangelicals make Scofield’ Notes, (Scofield! A drunkard and a con-man allied with the Satanist, Darby) --#Evangelicals have turned Scofield’s NOTES into a DIABOLICAL FORCE in our #national life.